Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed something to restore its respectability after the political smears it acquired during Harry Hopkins' regime. The 130-hour provision, to make high-priced reliefers do more work for their money (though still not work anywhere near the legal maximum of 44 hours a week for privately employed workers), earned the approval of private employers. It promised to promote efficiency in WPA. That it now produced a fierce racket from all three big political wings of Labor was intensely embarrassing. It put Franklin Roosevelt, already bedeviled by an Isolationist bloc in the Senate, on a new and unexpected hotspot...
...weakness of even-handed embargoes is that in practice they are quite capable of working to the long term disadvantage and danger of the U. S. The weakness of embargoes against aggressor nations only is that they may lead to near-term difficulties and dangers. If the U. S. were to apply economic sanctions against Japan as an "aggressor" without first enlisting the cooperation of the British fleet and fortified Singapore Base, it would probably find itself hard put to it to keep its trade lanes open to the Malayan Archipelago, whence comes most U. S. rubber...
...Chinese civil leaders issued long, hopeful reports on numerous phases of Chinese national activity. Just concluded in Chungking was a conference of all military bigwigs. Despite the loss during the last year of almost every coastal port, the Chinese retreat from the middle Yangtze Valley and the near exhaustion of Chinese finances (last week the Chinese Government placed restrictions on imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council...
...sinking friend, once-honored General Umberto Nobile. Mussolini had busted Airman Nobile out of the service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...
...George William Cardinal Mundelein, asked him to find good Catholic, bad Fascist Nobile a U. S. job. Few weeks later Cardinal Mundelein found one barely twelve miles southwest of his own Chicago Archdiocese. The job: head of the aeronautical engineering department of Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics near Lockport, Ill. Last week, lonely, greying, but still vigorous at 54, Umberto Nobile boarded the Conte di Savoia...